Can Musk deliver on his vision for Twitter? Questions remain


Experts who have studied content moderation and researched Twitter for years have expressed doubt that Musk knows exactly what he is getting into. — AP

Tesla CEO Elon Musk stands to be the next owner of Twitter, having pledged roughly US$44bil (RM191.53bil) to buy the social platform and take it private. Assuming that happens, next up on his agenda will be planning how to fulfill his promises to develop new Twitter features, open its algorithm to public inspection and defeat “spambots” on the service that mimic real users.

He’ll also need to have the company start “authenticating all humans”, as he described it in a statement quoted in the Monday press release announcing the acquisition. What exactly Musk meant by the phrase remains unclear.

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